Seasonal-Scale Dating of a Shallow Ice Core From Greenland Using Oxygen Isotope Matching Between Data and Simulation
Furukawa, Ryoto ; Uemura, Ryu ; Fujita, Koji ; Sjolte, Jesper LU
; Yoshimura, Kei
; Matoba, Sumito
and Iizuka, Yoshinori
(2017)
In Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
122(20).
p.10-10
- Abstract
A precise age scale based on annual layer counting is essential for investigating past environmental changes from ice core records. However, subannual scale dating is hampered by the irregular intraannual variabilities of oxygen isotope (δ18O) records. Here we propose a dating method based on matching the δ18O variations between ice core records and records simulated by isotope-enabled climate models. We applied this method to a new δ18O record from an ice core obtained from a dome site in southeast Greenland. The close similarity between the δ18O records from the ice core and models enables correlation and the production of a precise age scale, with an accuracy of a few months. A missing... (More)
A precise age scale based on annual layer counting is essential for investigating past environmental changes from ice core records. However, subannual scale dating is hampered by the irregular intraannual variabilities of oxygen isotope (δ18O) records. Here we propose a dating method based on matching the δ18O variations between ice core records and records simulated by isotope-enabled climate models. We applied this method to a new δ18O record from an ice core obtained from a dome site in southeast Greenland. The close similarity between the δ18O records from the ice core and models enables correlation and the production of a precise age scale, with an accuracy of a few months. A missing δ18O minimum in the 1995/1996 winter is an example of an indistinct δ18O seasonal cycle. Our analysis suggests that the missing δ18O minimum is likely caused by a combination of warm air temperature, weak moisture transport, and cool ocean temperature. Based on the age scale, the average accumulation rate from 1960 to 2014 is reconstructed as 1.02 m yr-1 in water equivalent. The annual accumulation rate shows an increasing trend with a slope of 3.6 mm yr-1, which is mainly caused by the increase in the autumn accumulation rate of 2.6 mm yr-1. This increase is likely linked to the enhanced hydrological cycle caused by the decrease in Arctic sea ice area. Unlike the strong seasonality of precipitation amount in the ERA reanalysis data in the southeast dome region, our reconstructed accumulation rate suggests a weak seasonality.
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- Furukawa, Ryoto
; Uemura, Ryu
; Fujita, Koji
; Sjolte, Jesper
LU
; Yoshimura, Kei
; Matoba, Sumito
and Iizuka, Yoshinori
- organization
- publishing date
- 2017-10-27
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Accumulation, ERA, GCM, Greenland, Isotope, Sea ice
- in
- Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
- volume
- 122
- issue
- 20
- pages
- 10 - 10
- publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85032382529
- wos:000417195200018
- ISSN
- 2169-8996
- DOI
- 10.1002/2017JD026716
- language
- English
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- yes
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- 0471f950-ff37-41e1-a8f3-92b402799d7c
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author = {{Furukawa, Ryoto and Uemura, Ryu and Fujita, Koji and Sjolte, Jesper and Yoshimura, Kei and Matoba, Sumito and Iizuka, Yoshinori}},
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title = {{Seasonal-Scale Dating of a Shallow Ice Core From Greenland Using Oxygen Isotope Matching Between Data and Simulation}},
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